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GHSA-5W6M-VXMJ-7W4C

Vulnerability from github – Published: 2025-12-07 00:30 – Updated: 2026-07-30 06:32

Details

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

Bluetooth: MGMT: cancel mesh send timer when hdev removed

mesh_send_done timer is not canceled when hdev is removed, which causes crash if the timer triggers after hdev is gone.

Cancel the timer when MGMT removes the hdev, like other MGMT timers.

Should fix the BUG: sporadically seen by BlueZ test bot (in "Mesh - Send cancel - 1" test).

Log:

BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in run_timer_softirq+0x76b/0x7d0 ... Freed by task 36: kasan_save_stack+0x24/0x50 kasan_save_track+0x14/0x30 __kasan_save_free_info+0x3a/0x60 __kasan_slab_free+0x43/0x70 kfree+0x103/0x500 device_release+0x9a/0x210 kobject_put+0x100/0x1e0 vhci_release+0x18b/0x240

Severity

7.8 (High)


                  
                    CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

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CVE-2025-40284 (GCVE-0-2025-40284)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-12-06 21:51 – Updated: 2026-10-15 22:02

Title

Bluetooth: MGMT: cancel mesh send timer when hdev removed

Summary

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: Bluetooth: MGMT: cancel mesh send timer when hdev removed mesh_send_done timer is not canceled when hdev is removed, which causes crash if the timer triggers after hdev is gone. Cancel the timer when MGMT removes the hdev, like other MGMT timers. Should fix the BUG: sporadically seen by BlueZ test bot (in "Mesh - Send cancel - 1" test). Log: ------ BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in run_timer_softirq+0x76b/0x7d0 ... Freed by task 36: kasan_save_stack+0x24/0x50 kasan_save_track+0x14/0x30 __kasan_save_free_info+0x3a/0x60 __kasan_slab_free+0x43/0x70 kfree+0x103/0x500 device_release+0x9a/0x210 kobject_put+0x100/0x1e0 vhci_release+0x18b/0x240 ------

Severity

7.8 (High)


                        
                          CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

SSVC

Exploitation: none Automatable: no Technical Impact: total

CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)

Decision recorded 2026-10-15 21:58 UTC

Assigner

Linux CNA under the mitre root

CNA scorecard D 53/100 over 7018 records in the last 180 days details

References

5 references

URL	Tags
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/990e6143b0ca0c66f…
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/2927ff643607eddf4…
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/7b6b6c077cad0601d…
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/fd62ca5ad136dcf6f…
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/55fb52ffdd62850d6…

Impacted products

2 products

Vendor	Product	Version
Linux	Linux	Affected: b338d91703fae6f6afd67f3f75caa3b8f36ddef3 , < 990e6143b0ca0c66f099d67d00c112bf59b30d76 (git) Affected: b338d91703fae6f6afd67f3f75caa3b8f36ddef3 , < 2927ff643607eddf4f03d10ef80fe10d977154aa (git) Affected: b338d91703fae6f6afd67f3f75caa3b8f36ddef3 , < 7b6b6c077cad0601d62c3c34ab7ce3fb25deda7b (git) Affected: b338d91703fae6f6afd67f3f75caa3b8f36ddef3 , < fd62ca5ad136dcf6f5aa308423b299a6be6f54ea (git) Affected: b338d91703fae6f6afd67f3f75caa3b8f36ddef3 , < 55fb52ffdd62850d667ebed842815e072d3c9961 (git)
Linux	Linux	Affected: 6.1 Unaffected: 0 , < 6.1 (semver) Unaffected: 6.1.159 , ≤ 6.1.* (semver) Unaffected: 6.6.117 , ≤ 6.6.* (semver) Unaffected: 6.12.59 , ≤ 6.12.* (semver) Unaffected: 6.17.9 , ≤ 6.17.* (semver) Unaffected: 6.18 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)

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